15. I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
16. Come near unto me, hear this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I:
17. Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel;
18. O that you had hearkened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
19. Your descendants also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your body like its grains; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
20. Go forth from Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare you, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say, The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob.
21. And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
22. There is no peace,